Pediatric Anemia Critical Care: Search Strategies for 5 Medical Databases

Giving access to specific search strategies for five medical databases—PubMed, Medline, EBM reviews, Embase, and CINAHL—targeting pediatric anemia management in critical care settings. Developed by Alix Pincivy and updated in October 2025, the collection includes Boolean queries and result counts for literature published since 2000. The data is stored in RTF files and reflects search results as of June 2, 2025.

Use Cases

• Replicating systematic reviews using the provided PubMed and Embase search strings
• Analyzing the volume of literature on pediatric blood transfusions by executing the CINAHL search queries
• Benchmarking search precision for 'iron deficiencies' and 'erythropoietin' concepts in critical care contexts

Strengths

• Covers 5 distinct medical database platforms
• Includes specific temporal filters for literature from 2000 onwards
• Provides result counts for query validation

Limitations

• Contains search strings only rather than raw article data or abstracts
• RTF file format requires manual extraction for use in automated tools
• Limited to the specific medical concepts of anemia and pediatric critical care

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

expert-curated search queries

Time Range

2000-2025

Freshness

Current as of the search execution date on June 2, 2025.